MMO Moments

A collection of those little moments in those not so little MMOs.

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  1. Being too broke to use the transport system.
  2. That one guy who always pulls aggro.
  3. Seeing your capital city for the first time.
  4. Learning how to make macros.
  5. Playing so long you forget to eat.
  6. Completing a five-man dungeon.
  7. Getting a legendary weapon.
  8. Having undergeared players in your group.
  9. Forgetting to do your dailies.
  10. When your finisher misses.
  11. Joining your first guild.
  12. Having a pocket healer.
  13. Having to wait in a dungeon queue.
  14. Grinding for hours to level up.
  15. Dying because of a bugged NPC.
  16. Pulling the boss by accident because you left your pet on aggressive.
  17. Traveling to a new zone for the first time.
  18. When you pull aggro off the tank.
  19. There is always that one bad player you have to take with you to raid.
  20. Realizing you have too many alts.
  21. Spending all day jumping around your capital city.
  22. Realizing in mid-air that jumping was a bad idea.
  23. Your first PVP kill.
  24. Logging in to play, but ending up talking to guildies for hours instead.
  25. Making your first 100 gold.
  26. Finally not being the undergeared member of the group.
  27. Stumbling upon a fellow guildmember ingame when you don’t expect it.
  28. Your first PVP death.
  29. Accidentally traveling to a zone way beyond your level before you know better.
  30. When your class is buffed.
  31. Losing the roll.
  32. Being in character creation so long, the game disconnects you.
  33. Randomly earning achievements you didn’t even know existed.
  34. That mountain of soda cans on your desk you never get to throwing away.
  35. Having an unhealthy amount of faction pride.
  36. Earning useful quest rewards.
  37. When you whisper something to the wrong person.
  38. Broken microphones in voice chat.
  39. When the tank says “I usually DPS.”
  40. The hours you’ve spent fishing.
  41. Disconnecting during a raid.
  42. When your kill gets stolen.
  43. Being stuck in the server queue.
  44. Spending all your time and money to make a twink.
  45. When all the quest reward choices suck.
  46. Having a bad tank.
  47. Realizing you already did your dailies.
  48. Getting locked to a raid that only downed one boss.
  49. Finally upgrading your graphics card.
  50. Finally completing story quests.
  51. The very first time an epic drops off a random mob.
  52. Meeting your significant other through your MMO.
  53. Spending the whole night killing a mob for a special drop, only to realize it was the wrong mob.
  54. Having to use the bathroom the second the queue pops.
  55. Getting that nice piece of gear you’ve worked for, and it looks really weird on your character.
  56. The first time you log into a new MMO and feel absolutely lost about the new controls and interface.
  57. You finally decide to go to bed and end up dreaming about the game.
  58. The healer complains about lag the second after the tank pulls the boss.
  59. When you notice you’re using the wrong gear one second too late.
  60. Pressing the wrong key at the end of a combo.
  61. Wondering why you’re not attacking, but then realizing your chat is filled with “111232311wwwwwaaas…”.
  62. Forgetting to shut off your voice-activated vent before having an intimate night with your sweetheart.
  63. The last boss of the raid was just pulled, and you accidentally hit your AOE fear instead of your AOE heal.
  64. Forgetting that you can’t fly in other MMOs. #aion
  65. When you’re tanking, can’t figure out why you’re being one-shotted, and then realize all your gear is broken.
  66. Thinking you mailed an epic item to an alt, but it turns out someone else has a very similar name.
  67. Making the mistake of going into the Goldshire inn with a female character on an RP server. #world of warcraft
  68. When someone is sincerely grateful after you’ve helped them.
  69. Great person, terrible player.
  70. Spending the entire day working on one achievement.
  71. Getting your first flying mount. #world of warcraft
  72. Altering your work availability to fit your raid schedule.
  73. Being forced to PUG a raid.
  74. Waiting for the release date. #guild wars 2
  75. Getting your first coliseum item at level 55. #aion
  76. Fishing for Droughtlands fish in Shimmersand, and not realizing why you’re not getting any. #rift
  77. Spamming your heal only to realize you’ve been healing yourself instead of the tank.
  78. Barely beating the enrage timer.
  79. Seeing the game for the first time on max graphics.
  80. Accidentally salvaging the wrong item.
  81. Crafting a legendary weapon.
  82. Being G-kicked for a stupid reason.
  83. Getting your character drunk.
  84. Low drop rates.
  85. Playing with your significant other.
  86. That one guy who always complains about his DPS not being high enough.
  87. Suffering from altaholism.
  88. Free server transfers.
  89. Earning a guild promotion.
  90. When the tank won’t stop running out of range of the healer.
  91. Raiding the other faction’s capital cities.
  92. Being stuck with an awful raid leader.
  93. You love your guild, but hate its leader.
  94. Feeling more worn out from raiding than you do from work or school.
  95. Everyone in the raid dies but one person; the boss dies to DOTs.
  96. Always and forever waiting in queues. #world of warcraft
  97. Ordering delivery so you don’t have to get up and cook.
  98. Dodge rolling off the top of the jumping puzzle you just spent the last hour climbing. #guild wars 2
  99. Being a girl in vent.
  100. Trying to think of a name for your character.
  101. You roll a 99 on that epic item, and the next guy rolls a 100.
  102. That boss that always randomly resets.
  103. Your companion pet collection.
  104. Being a successful guild leader.
  105. Those undergeared players who are always in denial about being undergeared.
  106. Old school Alterac Valley queues. #world of warcraft
  107. Coming back after years of not playing, and finding out your character still exists.
  108. You get to the final boss, you’re called AFK and expect it to take a moment, but it actually takes an hour.
  109. Starting a new game and feeling like a complete derp.
  110. Successfully tanking endgame raid bosses.
  111. When a group member leaves in the middle of a PVP match.
  112. Glitching inside of a wall.
  113. Thinking you’re rich after playing the game for only a week.
  114. Hitting max level, going back to your starting zone, and hanging out there instead.
  115. Raging after your favorite class gets nerfed.
  116. Trade chat. #world of warcraft
  117. Being told how to play your role by somebody who’s never played it before.
  118. Accidentally pulling a mob because your fingers were on the wrong keys when you moved.
  119. Knowing your home city will look like the reject casting group for Kung Fu Panda 4 come September 25th. #world of warcraft
  120. Spending hours upon hours losing yourself in the game, and then the sunrise suddenly casts a glare on your monitor.
  121. That feeling of accomplishment from gaining a level back in old school WoW. #world of warcraft
  122. Taking a short break from playing, and coming back undergeared.
  123. When your ISP’s lag spike hits right when you need to do something critical to the fight, and a wipe ensues. 
  124. When someone uses “I was lagging” as an excuse for messing up, and you know it actually wasn’t lag at all.
  125. Finally getting that rare companion pet.
  126. 60+ minute long dungeon queues.
  127. Finally memorizing the layout of your capital city.
  128. Rerolling a new class, and feeling stupid all over again.
  129. You’re forced to play on the lowest graphics settings.
  130. Finally hitting max level.
  131. Going AFK for two minutes, and coming back to find the rest of the group dead.
  132. People rolling on gear they don’t need.
  133. Wiping at one percent.
  134. Feeling like a traitor for playing the opposite faction.
  135. You spend more time playing than sleeping.
  136. When you’re in the middle of an elite dungeon, and you disconnect.
  137. Having to quit the game because you can’t afford it anymore.
  138. That feeling after finally buying your last piece of emblem gear.
  139. Those guys who always play female characters and always dress them like sluts.
  140. Having more pride in your crafting profession than you do your actual job.
  141. Actually reading the quest text.
  142. Getting lost in dungeons.
  143. People who use the guild bank as their personal one.
  144. Being flirted with because you’re the token girl in the guild.
  145. The feeling of being with a game since its release. #guild wars 2
  146. Being forced to quit playing because of a persistent white knight stalker.
  147. Having an entire new world to explore. #guild wars 2
  148. Playing so long, you forget to pee.
  149. You can’t focus in class because you want to play so badly.
  150. “This character name is already taken.”
  151. Planning your evening of gaming in your head while at work.
  152. When you come back from AFK to find your character dead.
  153. Playing with surround sound.
  154. Getting more bag space.
  155. Earning high quality quest rewards.
  156. Farming bots.
  157. Logging on to an empty city after server downtime.
  158. People selling in-game currency for real money.
  159. Running out of bag space.
  160. When a quest or event bugs right before it finishes. #guild wars 2
  161. When you complete a map only to receive fancy rewards your character can’t use. #guild wars 2
  162. Never making it past “casual player” status, despite spending years playing the same MMO.
  163. Having too many crafting materials for low level items, and none for high level ones.
  164. When you kill a random low level mob, and it drops a rare item.
  165. When the name you want to use is available.
  166. When the trading post is “down for maintenance.” #guild wars 2
  167. Getting to know new friends and guildies and sharing experiences together.
  168. Your desk is the neatest part of your entire room.
  169. Repair costs.
  170. That feeling after leveling up.
  171. Saving up money for mounts.
  172. Making a new character.
  173. Learning new skills from your trainer.
  174. Being a healer in PVP.
  175. Those people who always stand in fire.
  176. Getting your very first mount.
  177. Running out of bank space.
  178. The letters are worn off your WASD keys.
  179. That one person who always cues their mic while eating.
  180. Hitting the enrage timer.
  181. Traveling to a new zone.
  182. Fall damage.
  183. Hating how pay-to-play is draining all your money.
  184. Great player, complete dick.
  185. Taking down your first Dragon. #guild wars 2
  186. Completing your armor set.
  187. That one class that always tops the charts with one macro.
  188. That feeling from helping someone learn how to play.
  189. Kill streaks in PVP.